Walnut Hill
Walnut Hill rises to 131 m in Connecticut. Chapel Hill stands 182 m to the northeast, 3.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Nehantic Nature Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 16 miles off.
The story
mountain in New London County, Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808793, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 131 m
How to reach it
- 16.5 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.4 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 20.4 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 19.1 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Nehantic Nature Preserve: 0.5 mi
- Grassy Hill Road Open Space: 1.4 mi
- Farm Meadow Road Tract: 1.5 mi
- Alf & Sylvia Bingham Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Walbridge Woodland: 2.4 mi
- Beckwith Hill: 0.9 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 1.5 mi
- Maynard Hill: 1.8 mi
- Beech Hill: 2.1 mi
- Ridge Hill: 2.7 mi
- Transient Workmans Camp: 0.9 mi
- Transient Workman's Camp Buildings: 1.0 mi
- Johm M. Ida, 1906 - 1988: 4.6 mi
- Lyme's Veterans Memorial: 5.0 mi
- The Eagle: 5.1 mi
- The Genius Museum at Nature's Art Village: 1.3 mi
- Salem Historical Society: 4.1 mi
- Mohegan Cultural Preservation Center: 7.9 mi
- Tantaquidgeon Museum: 7.9 mi
- Niantic Children’s Museum: 8.2 mi
- Horse Pond Boat Launch: 1.7 mi
- Powers Lake Boat Launch: 3.1 mi
- Gardner Lake State Park: 4.5 mi
- Montville American Little League Complex: 4.7 mi
- Norwich Pond Boat Launch: 4.8 mi
- Kiddie's Beach: 6.8 mi
- Hole-in-the-Wall Beach: 8.4 mi
- Amtrak Beach: 8.5 mi
- McCook Park Beach: 8.6 mi
- Crescent Beach: 8.7 mi
- turtle rock: 2.0 mi
- tri-town marker: 3.2 mi
- Devil's Oven: 5.7 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 5.8 mi
- The Whale: 9.7 mi
- Silver Falls: 2.1 mi
- Cascade: 5.8 mi
- Chapman Falls: 6.0 mi
- Cascade: 6.9 mi
- Cascade: 7.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 6.5 mi
- Sprout Garden: 8.0 mi
- Azalea Garden: 8.0 mi
- Laurel Walk: 8.0 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 8.1 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 1.2 mi
- Sparky: 6.7 mi
- River Blue: 8.9 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 9.0 mi
- Muffler Man: 9.8 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 6.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.7 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 22.3 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 23.1 mi
- Bluff Head: 23.5 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 13.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 22.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 22.0 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 22.0 mi
- Oil Shed: 22.0 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 7.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 14.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 14.9 mi
- Skate Hut: 8.7 mi
- Powder House: 8.9 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 12.1 mi
- Gay City State Park: 22.4 mi
- Old Spring: 13.4 mi
- Windham Spring: 20.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.2 miles of Walnut Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill | NE 45° | 182 m | 3.1 mi |
| Tater Hill | WNW 285° | 179 m | 6.3 mi |
| Long Hill | NW 318° | 175 m | 7.1 mi |
| Maynard Hill | N 5° | 174 m | 1.8 mi |
| Forsyth Hill | NNE 21° | 171 m | 3.1 mi |
| Cockle Hill | NNW 342° | 171 m | 5.4 mi |
| Raymond Hill | NE 41° | 170 m | 5.2 mi |
| Dolbeare Hill | ENE 58° | 162 m | 3.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:12 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:39 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Norwich Public Utility PLT, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359271597
Day trips start here
- Montville · 5 mi
- East Lyme · 6 mi
- Waterford · 8 mi
- New London · 9 mi
- Old Lyme · 9 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 10 mi
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